Right, what I’m saying is… the FBI would know they can’t just make a federal case of a local issue because it would probably get tossed on procedural grounds. Yet they are involved. So we can infer that they are (A) wasting their time, or (B), they’ve determined a reason they had jurisdiction. I find the latter to be far more reasonable.
A private citizen, yes, but also a US Presidential candidate, mere weeks before the election. Any illegal attempt to influence the election would definitely fall under the purview of the FBI.
What if the information is real, and Joe Biden attempted to suppress its release? What if that’s what Bill Barr was trying to develop? If there’s something there, conservatives should be excited to get to the bottom of this. But based on the resistance and dissembling I’m seeing, I think we all know it’s another bullshit smear operation, and conservatives just don’t want to see Veritas impeded in carrying it out.
That’s why I’m asking the questions. I don’t think there are no answers I’m just confused about it at the moment. As more information comes out the questions may become clear. I do suspect they are investigating election tampering. The problem is if the diary is authentic there may be theft and burglary but I don’t see how it can be election tampering. At this point the FBI knows if it is authentic.
At this point it’s looking like the diary is authentic. The FBI is certainly proceeding like the theft was real which makes the diary authentic. The New York Times is saying that it’s real. I’ve looked and there are no claims that anyone was peddling a fake diary. That is much more disturbing than anything Project Veritas did.
Mr. O’Keefe said in the video that “tipsters” had reached out to Project Veritas in 2020 to alert them to the existence of the diary, saying that they had stayed in a room that Ms. Biden had recently been in. But Mr. O’Keefe said that his group could not authenticate the diary and made an “ethical” decision to not publish it.
He said that Project Veritas gave the diary to “law enforcement” and attempted to return it to a lawyer representing Ms. Biden, who he said “refused to authenticate it.” Mr. O’Keefe portrayed the investigation as politically motivated, questioning why the Justice Department under Ms. Biden’s father was pursuing the case.
I don’t see a clear assertion that it’s real, other than that NYT doesn’t call it “allegedly” hers.
Mr. O’Keefe acknowledged that the group was under investigation by the Justice Department in connection with a diary reported to have been stolen from Ashley Biden, President Biden’s daughter.
So, to confirm my impression, do we only have O’Keefe’s word that this entire thing has anything whatsoever to do with this “diary”? (The NYT link is paywalled for me.)
It would be nice if someone in authority would speak a bit on it. “There was a stolen diary.” Something clear and uncomplicated.
That would be nice, so I won’t count on it.
Why should the investigators tip their hand at all? You not wanting to wait to get the news is irrelevant to them especially if it would compromise their goals.
He’s saying that the raid proves that the diary floating around is real, and we should be less concerned about what those brave PV journalists did or didn’t do and more concern about the sexual predator in the White House.
I’m confused. If other news outlets also had copies of the diary, what’s so special about Project Veritas?
Also, it’s not uncommon for journalists to receive unsolicited documents and such from whistleblowers. Is this illegal? And is it a federal matter that should involve the FBI?
O’Keefe says that they actually tried to hand the diary over to a Biden lawyer, but they wouldn’t touch it.
Bolding mine.
So that’s O’Keefe’s story. They received this thing that was being shopped around to other news outlets. They couldn’t verify the information, so they decided to give it to a Biden lawyer, who refused it. They then turned it over to law enforcement, and never published anything.
If true, I don’t see what they did wrong. And his statements should be a matter of record that could be corroborated by the cops and the Biden lawyer.
Also, it sounds like the Bidens reported the ‘theft’ after sections of the diary were made public by others. That raises the possibility that it actually was lost or forgotton, and the claim of theft only cropped up afterwards.
I don’t know what to believe on this, but it’s important to hear both sides.
O’Keefe is also suggesting that the FBI tipped off the NY Times, because they called within an hour of the raid, which was supposed to be secret.
OK, fine. He’s saying that since the diary has been proven real, we should be less concerned about Project Veritas’ actions and be spending more time and effort closely investigating President Biden and the sexual claims made against him.
I have the same paywall problems others have. I saw third party articles saying the NYT confirmed the diary was hers.
PV didn’t publish the diary. Another site did. That site has as bad a reputation as PV but a much lower profile. It came out two weeks before the election. If the diary is Ashley Biden’s then we have the current President being accused by his daughter of sexually abusing her. That will have much more impact than who stole the diary. It’s been a year and no statements that the diary is a fraud. That’s troubling.
I’m not sure what your question is? If the diary is authentic and written by Ashley Biden then she describes inappropriate showers with her father and says “Have I been abused?” “I think so.”
I have only seen the quotes published out of context. I’m assuming the actual pages are somewhere but I haven’t seen them. It’s just possible that in context with the rest of the diary the quoted parts are not as bad as it seems. I certainly hope so.
Here is what is purported to be the diary,
One will hopefully note the order of, and parenthetical nature of, her comments about her father*.
Maybe there’s something else but her handwriting is painful to try to read.
I sure as fuck hope no one is trying to turn that alone into "My father sexually abused me!’
